Avery: 6 weeks old..

Our little Avery girl is 6 weeks old and is growing and changing everyday.  She is such a sweet, little baby and we love learning more about her each day.

Avery is slowing getting into more of a routine and showing some consistency with her eating and sleeping patterns.  For the past 4 - 5 days, she's been only waking to eat once at night.  She typically will eat around 8 or 9 pm, wake anywhere from 2:30 - 3:30 am and then again around 6 - 7ish and then back to sleep for a few hours.  She's getting much better at comforting herself and getting back to sleep on her own, but every few nights she needs some help getting to sleep (ie: being walked around for about 15 - 20 minutes). Throughout the day, she goes back and forth between sleeping and being wide awake every few hours.

Avery is finally starting to wear 0 - 3 month clothing (her first outfit today!).  She still fits best into her newborn clothes, but I anticipate her moving out of them for good within the next few weeks.  She is also now wearing size 1 diapers...they seem huge on her compared to newborns!  We also think she might be starting to lose some of her hair...noticing it mainly in the front on top.

Aves is still a great eater and typically nurses about every 3 hours during the day.  She's still our little spitter and usually gives us the loudest burps after feedings.  The doctor thinks she's just fine especially with her weight gain and the fact that she doesn't seem to be in pain.  So we'll have to deal with the spitting up and know to be armed with lots of burp cloths!

Avery is giving us more and more smiles every day.  It's so sweet to see her little grin.  She loves to be talked to and today she even starting cooing.

Lately, Aves isn't real content in her swing, carseart or bouncy...unless she is asleep.  If she's awake, she prefers to be held and lets us know it.  She can sleep just about anywhere and she tends to prefer it noisy as that's when she sleeps best.  We often comment as we can't believe how soundly she sleeps when kids are yelling and there is lots of commotion going on. 

She is still a decent traveler as of right now (still better than her sister was).  She made her first 3.5 hour car ride to see family this past weekend and did pretty well.  She slept the majority of the way over with a brief stop to eat.  The way home was a little rougher as she got hungry.  After a stop to feed her, she slept off and on for the remaining 2.5 hours.  On most of our hour trips to Indy, it's almost guaranteed that she will melt down at some point in the trip.  At this point, I would say that none of our kids like(d) their carseats.

Here are a few pictures of our sweet, little girl.  Don't let these pictures fool you, little Aves gets held a lot!

Sweet, little sunbather

First boat ride on Nana and Papa's boat.

Watching big sister swim in the backyard